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Say! Seeing Capitaine Haddock like that brought back a lot of fond memories. Do you read it in it's original French? Have you scanned them for your reader? I'd like to find those!!! Astérix too. When I was a kid I used to 'feed' on that.
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Unfortunately I don't read french. I read them in their english translation, which I must say aren't bad at all. Though still probably nothing like the original...
I do have them scanned. I didn't do the scanning. Downloaded them off some website. I figure I'm allowed this since I have them in the real world. well, most of them.
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I still read Bob Morane, Gaston Lagaffe and some of Gotlib's work on the reader in horizontal display. It's tedious and bland but I still prefer to read it on the PRS than on the computer.
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Sadly, I'm not familiar with these artists. Thanks to you, now, I've gone a googling, and I have a couple of new artists to check out
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For the number of pages, depending on display size, you should do a word count more than a page count; and some fonts have an impact also.
The average paper back has a word count of 300 to 325 words per page. If in Word you format your books with Times Roman 16points, on the reader it will display at 175 in large display, 210 medium and 275 small. But that is my approximate average count.
When reading with the reader turning pages is less difficult than a paper book. I read fast too. The only habit you get to learn besides turning pages with the bloody left hand is to press the page turn button with a little over half a line left to read, then blink to moisten your eyes and the next page display is there. After a book or two everything becomes automatic.
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Here's to hoping!! All I need now is the reader and I can start experimenting....